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Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux

1 hodina 58 min zpět
It's been a while since most of you probably thought about the Opera web browser, but these days they have been catering their "Opera GX" web browser to gamers. Today they have finally delivered this Opera GX gaming-focused browser for Linux users...

Virtual Swap Space Patches Updated For Improving Linux's Swap Design

2 hodiny 51 sek zpět
The fourth iteration of patches implementing Virtual Swap Space for Linux were sent out on Wednesday. This stems from ideas going back years for an abstraction to better separate a swap entry from its physical backing storage...

Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Board

2 hodiny 7 min zpět
Drew Fustini sent out DeviceTree patches this past weekend for enabling the HDMI display controller on the T-Head TH1520 RISC-V SoC. Additionally, there's a patch for lighting up the HDMI display support on the LicheePi 4A RISC-V board...

Canonical Collecting Wish List Ideas For Improving Mir

2 hodiny 16 min zpět
With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS quickly approaching release next week, Canonical is beginning more of their road-mapping for Ubuntu 26.10 and beyond. To help in plotting future work, Canonical is interested in feedback for features or improvements that developers/users would like to see around their Mir project...

AMD Prototyping AMDGPU SVM Atop DRM_GPUSVM Framework

18. Březen 2026 - 21:24
AMD engineers are experimenting with a proof-of-concept implementation of a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation atop the DRM_GPUSVM framework...

Intel Ends Work On Open-Source kAFL-Fuzzer For Fuzzing VMs

18. Březen 2026 - 21:03
An Intel project developed the past several years was kAFL-Fuzzer as a hardware-assisted feedback fuzzer for x86 virtual machines (VMs) to help with security. While it saw a lot of work in prior years, development activity slowed down last year and now the project has been formally ended...

GNOME 50 Released With Many Fantastic Improvements

18. Březen 2026 - 17:16
GNOME 50 is out today, on-schedule and just in time for being the default desktop of the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44...

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Released For Apple Silicon Macs

18. Březen 2026 - 16:48
While Fedora 43 was released at the end of October and there is just one month to go now until the release of Fedora 44, Fedora Asahi Remix 43 debuted today as this spin of Fedora Linux for Apple Silicon Macs...

Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions

18. Březen 2026 - 16:00
Last week I provided a look at the EXT4 and XFS performance from Linux 6.12 LTS through Linux 7.0 in its current development form. As mentioned in that article and as requested by many Phoronix readers, benchmarks have since wrapped up looking at how the Btrfs copy-on-write file-system performance has evolved since that late 2024 period and all major Linux kernel releases past that Long Term Support version.

Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

18. Březen 2026 - 15:44
Last week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a "high" rated vulnerability for Ubuntu's Snap daemon has been revealed...

Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs

18. Březen 2026 - 14:00
It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature...

Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements

18. Březen 2026 - 13:18
Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support...

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel

18. Březen 2026 - 11:26
Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It's now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google...

GRUB Bootloader Development Moves To FreeDesktop.org

18. Březen 2026 - 11:16
The widely-used GRUB bootloader is now being developed on FreeDesktop.org with a modern GitLab-based workflow...

Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux

18. Březen 2026 - 11:08
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...

Linux 7.0 Better Supporting The Logitech MX Master 4 Bluetooth Mouse

18. Březen 2026 - 10:52
For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0...

CMake 4.3 Released With Package Import/Export Using The Common Package Specification

18. Březen 2026 - 1:30
Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem...

systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation

17. Březen 2026 - 21:15
Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions...

AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs

17. Březen 2026 - 20:30
AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features...

OpenJDK 26 Released With The Java Applet API Finally Removed

17. Březen 2026 - 20:25
OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it's finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API...